history of yoga /pree classical yoga /post classical yoga.

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HISTORY OF YOGA:

Pre-Classical Yoga


The beginnings of Yoga were developed by the Indus-Sarasvati civilization in Northern India over 5,000 years ago. 

 The word yoga was first mentioned in the oldest sacred texts, the Rig Veda. The Vedas were a collection of texts containing songs, mantras and rituals to be used by Brahmans, the Vedic priests.

  Yoga was slowly refined and developed by the Brahmans and Rishis (mystic seers) who documented their practices and beliefs in the Upanishads, a huge work containing over 200 scriptures.

  The most renowned of the Yogic scriptures is the Bhagavad-Gîtâ, composed around 500 B.C.E.

  The Upanishads took the idea of ritual sacrifice from the Vedas and internalized it, teaching the sacrifice of the ego through self-knowledge, action (karma yoga) and wisdom (jnana yoga).this is history of yoga

Post-Classical Yoga


A few centuries after ramdev baba, yoga masters created a system of practices designed to rejuvenate the body and prolong life. 

 They rejected the teachings of the ancient Vedas and embraced the physical body as the means to achieve enlightenment.

  They developed tantra yoga, with radical techniques to cleanse the body and mind to break the knots that bind us to our physical existence.

This exploration of these physical-spiritual connections and body centered practices led to the creation of what we primarily think of yoga in the West: Hatha Yoga.

 The early Buddhist texts describe yogic and meditative practices, some of which the Buddha borrowed from the śramaṇa tradition
  • 1 Karma yoga – the path of action or activity
  •  2 Bhakti yoga – the path of devotion
  •  3 Jnana yoga – the path of inquiry
  •  4 Raja yoga – the path of introspection
  •  5 Hatha yoga – the path of balancing the physical, mental and pranic layer in the body

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